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Hong Kong Case Law

Interim maintenance variation

  • 23 Mar 2018

    WT v. YLC

    Citation
    [2018] HKFC 38
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC9820/2015

    Applying the established five‑step approach and accepting a two‑stage analysis of pre‑marital assets, the court identified and quarantined specified pre‑marital assets for each party (taking account of duration, separate finances and limited intermingling), treated certain post‑separation acquisitions as the husband’s, applied the sharing principle to the remaining pot and made final orders that effect a clean break: the wife receives a greater share (approx 55.6%) and the husband (approx 44.4%) after transfers and a balancing lump sum of HK$5,721,300; child maintenance set at HK$40,000 per m…

  • 16 Jan 2009

    M v. M

    Citation
    M v. M
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC5793/2006

    Court accepted husband's evidence that the wife removed specified jewellery; sums advanced by husband's parents (except two previously repaid loans) were parental advancements/gifts not legally enforceable loans and thus not deductible from family assets; interim maintenance of HK$26,000 is reasonable and not repayable; total net family assets calculated at HK$10,036,598 and, applying s.7 MPPO and principles of needs, sharing and compensation, wife awarded lump sum of HK$5,894,474 (including HK$936,000 in lieu of future maintenance) payable within two months with continued monthly payments of…